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Confessing error
Matched in: Term Confessing error
Pardon
that the evidence rightly viewed does not warrant the judgment, the prisoner should assign and the Attorney-General should confess error on the record, whereby the judgment would be reversed and a similar suggestion was made by the
Remittitur damnum
and after error brought. The damages were usually remitted in ejectment and replevin where judgment was signed by confession or default, 2 Chit. Arch. Prac., 12th Edn. 1517.
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Bruton error
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Marriage
534, so that the rule semper pr'sumitur pro negante applied, and 'judgment was given for the defendant in error.' In 1753 Lord Hardwicke's Act (26 Geo. 2, c. 33), passed to prevent clandestine marriages, required, under pain … without any such process. Moreover, the promise must either be proved by writing of the promisor, or by confession of it on oath. The result is that if the promise was not in writing the promise cannot
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